PhD Proposal Review: Human Strategies in the Control of Complex Objects: A Task-Dynamic Approach with Clinical Applications Rashida Nayeem Location: Zoom Link Passcode: 247537 Abstract: Functional interaction with objects - tool use - is essential in daily living and is regarded as the foundation of our evolutionary advantage. Humans effortlessly interact with a variety of […]
This session will cover interconnected nature of autonomous vehicles on land, underwater, and in the air. Using examples from research at Northeastern, it explores the interconnections of systems design, application-driven robotics, and the fundamental algorithms associated with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), machine learning (ML), and computer vision and imaging as it applies to a […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Improving the Virtual Memory Efficiency of GPUs Trinayan Baruah Location: Zoom Link Abstract: GPUs have been adopted widely based their ability to exploit data-level parallelism found in modern-day applications, ranging from high performance computing to machine learning. This widespread adoption has, in part, been accelerated by the development of more intuitive high-level […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: The Perils of Shared Computing: A Hardware Security Perspective Majid Sabbagh Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Modern processors and hardware accelerators, in the cloud or on the edge, are capable of running multiple workloads from different users concurrently. Despite software techniques for security such as virtualization and containers, a new attack surface […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Fractional Order Derivative in Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing with Specific Application to Seizure Detection Ala Tokhmpash Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease that affects around 50 million people worldwide. This disease is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Enhancing Monte Carlo Light Modeling Methods for the Development of Near-infrared Based Brain Techniques Yaoshen Yuan Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Studying light propagation in biological tissues is critical for developing biophotonics techniques and its applications. Monte Carlo (MC) method, a stochastic solver for radiative transfer equation, has been recognized as the gold […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: RF Magnetoelectric Microsystems Xianfeng Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Multiferroic materials are the materials that inherently exhibit two or more ferroic properties, such as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism and ferroelasticity, etc. Magnetoelectric (ME) materials with coupled magnetization and electric polarization have attracted intense interests recently due to the realization of strong ME coupling and […]
PhD Proposal Review: Towards Efficient Deep Neural Network Execution with Model Compression and Platform-specific Optimization Xiaolong Ma Location: Zoom Abstract: Deep learning or deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the fundamental element and core enabler of ubiquitous artificial intelligence. Recently, with the emergence of a spectrum of high-end mobile devices, many deep learning applications that […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Can We Trust AI? Towards Practical Implementation and Theoretical Analysis in Trustworthy Machine Learning Kaidi Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains recently. It has been well accepted that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which raises concerns of DNNs in security-critical applications and […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Active Resource Partitioning and Planning for Storage Systems using Time Series Forecasting and Machine Learning Techniques Maher Kachmar Location: Zoom Abstract: In today's enterprise storage systems, supported data services such as snapshot delete or drive rebuild can result in tremendous performance overhead if executed inline along with heavy foreground IO, often leading […]